Advertising Requirements

This document is a translation of Advertising Requirements in English. In case of conflict between the Russian version of Advertising Requirements and this translation - only the Russian version of Advertising Requirements is legally binding. The Russian version of Advertising Requirements can be found here: https://yandex.ru/legal/direct_adv_rules/?lang=ru.

Ads served by Yandex.Direct should conform to the requirements stated at the present document and to the provisions of the “General Provisions. Advertising Requirements” available at https://yandex.com/legal/general_adv_rules_ch/.

Your ad should consist of*:

headline (limited to 33 characters including spaces and punctuation);

text (limited to 75 characters including spaces and punctuation);

URL link and/or contact information.

The ad's headline and text in Russian should be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors. The keywords, to which the ad will be displayed, should match the ad's content.

URL link in the ad should match its content and should function properly. You cannot use IP-address for domain name.

The contact information should be valid and correct, and the telephone information should not differ from the information in the ad.

The headline, the text, or the URL link cannot not contain:

spaces between letters in w o r d s and uppercase words, with the exception of abbreviations, which consist of the first capital letters of several words (USSR, CIS etc);

Trying to place a large number of identical ads (ads with identical texts, URLs, keywords), even if through different advertising campaigns, is considered as spam. These ads will be rejected at any stage of advertising campaign.

*Whenever the Ad Serving Rules (https://yandex.com/legal/direct_display_rules_ch/) allow to perform an Impression of an ad containing a graphic image (hereinafter – “image”), provided by the advertiser as a part of the ad, the Image should comply with the respective technical requirements (i.e., the size, file format, etc.) specified in the client web interface, as well as the requirements below:

1. The image should be legible and of high quality and should not contain any compression artifacts (any upsampled or interpolated images obtained from lower resolution images are not accepted).

2. The ad image should correspond to the title /text of advertising, web-page content containing an advertising offer. The ad image should satisfy current Russian legislation including advertising legislation, Yandex advertising requirements, in particular the advertising policy requirements.

the very text of the advertising offer, slogan or other phrases of this sort;

words «promotion», «sale», «bargain/clearance sale» and other similar words, if the usage of such words in the image is not the advertising of promotions and special offers, information of which shall be in the very ad and on the site containing the advertising offer.

any misspelled words;

the human beings and animal images except for the cases when such an image is used on the package of the advertised product or on the product itself presented in the image;

products or other attributes of the advertiser competitors;

companies logotypes and watermark.s except for the cases when they are laid on the advertised product (at this the product itself should take the bigger part of the image than its logotype/watermark).

4. The image should not contain any solid fill (i.e. one-color parts) occupying over 20% of the entire image and/or any empty spaces displaying no image components.

Please, note:

Yandex LLC reserves the right to reject any advertisement at post moderation stage of advertising campaign without stating the reason.